DOWNWARD CORRECTION OF PRICES BEING FELT IN RESIDENTIAL POCKETS WITHIN SELANGOR The infallibility of house prices is a belief that is more grounded in the track record of the Malaysia housing industry, and not necessarily rooted in fact. As a rule of thumb, house prices in key urban centres... Read more

In what could be seen as a blow to optimism among developers in the Island Republic, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) recently announced that the country’s property cooling measures are here to stay. The move goes against the grain of expectations from the market, which has been performing... Read more

REDEVELOPMENT CAN REVIVE A LANDSCAPE, BUT THERE ARE IMPORTANT PITFALLS TO CONSIDER TOO BY Zoe Phoon The High Line in New York City in the US is a 1.45-mile long public park built on a disused historical freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan’s West Side. Opened... Read more

The long downtrend period for Singapore’s housing market may be coming to an end, say market watchers, noting that there are now signs of a potential rebound. In an interview with CNBC, Cushman & Wakefield’s managing director of Asia Pacific research Sigrid Zialcita told the news network that she... Read more

BY Chris Prasad The overall climate of political and economic uncertainty has done little to slow down rising house prices globally, says international property firm Knight Frank. In its latest Global House Price Index report, the firm’s global research shows that average house prices around the world rose at... Read more

Jones Lang LaSalle’s year-end Residential and Land Market Review 2016 predicts that residential prices in Hong Kong will rise by about 5 per cent next year. According to the financial and professional services firm land prices rebounded in the second half of 2016 as more prime sites were made... Read more

BY Roznah Abdul Jabbar The concern about oversupply of office space in the city and whether that will affect the sale of new office projects will always be there but there are ways to address it, according to Naza TTDI Sdn Bhd’s deputy executive chairman and group managing director... Read more

Canada is starting to get aggressive about foreign property purchases, especially in some of its major cities. Just a few months after the city of Vancouver in British Columbia decided to impose an additional property transfer tax on overseas property buyers – no less than 15 per cent of... Read more

BY Chris Prasad While rising non-performing loan (NPL) figures do not paint a pretty picture for the overall economy, some property market experts predict that there could be an unintentional positive flipside to the situation. Industry professionals engaged in the secondary market believe that the threat of increased loan... Read more